Promising Young Woman (2020)
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DZ-87: Keeping Genre fresh
How do you deliver on the emotional contract of a genre while surprising the audience?
In tackling this enormous topic, Stu and Chads enlist professional TV writer and director Kodie Bedford, someone who has somehow managed to defy genre pigeon-holing by writing mystery, comedy and vampire shows… →
⏱ 2h 13m
28 MAR 2022
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In tackling this enormous topic, Stu and Chads enlist professional TV writer and director Kodie Bedford, someone who has somehow managed to defy genre pigeon-holing by writing mystery, comedy and vampire shows… →
DZ-119: Final Character Choices & Great Endings
How do you dramatise a protagonist's internal journey through their final decision?
AI✦Analyzes how Promising Young Woman withholds the protagonist’s decisive act from the audience until a two-minute climax, then reveals it as fait accompli rather than dramatizing the moment of choice itself.✦
Listen if you want to understand how to better dramatise a character's internal journey
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In this episode, Stu and Chas focus solely on the final choices made by protagonists and how that reflects their character journey and successfully, or not, dramatises the internal… →
Films:
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
, Finding Nemo (2003)
, Michael Clayton (2007)
, Promising Young Woman (2020)
, Talk to Me (2022)
"In the case of Promising Young Woman, she doesn't even get to see the consequences of her decision at all."